Hazara Singh, Hamdam, alias H. S. Shariff, alias Bachan Singh, son of Gurdit Singh, Village Janetpura, District Ludhiana. He passed the Matriculation Examination at Moga, district Ferozepore, and left his home for the U. S. A. about May 1928. Arrived at San Francisco on 9th June 1928 and joined the Berkeley University. He was quickly absorbed into the Ghadr fields and became one of the most active workers in its cause. He was paid an allowance of $60 a month by the Ghadr Party while he was studying at Berkely. In January 1929 he went to Berlin returning to America by the end of February 1929. On return he stated that he had gone to Berlin to help his uncle ’Mitta Singh' (real name Mitha Singh, the well-known Ghadr Party agent in Berlin and now in Kabul) who was running a restaurant. Evidence which came to light subsequently showed that Hazara Singh had been sent by the Ghadr Party of America to undergo military training and to receive instructions in methods of Soviet propaganda at Moscow, though it seems unlikely that he ever actually went to Moscow. He was however sent away by the Soviet authorities on the grounds that his educational qualifications were insufficient. Attempts were again made by the Ghadr Party to have him re-admitted to the Moscow University and the Soviet agreed to have him back but the scheme did not materialize. Hazara Singh continued to take part in the Ghadr Party activities in America by contributing articles and poems to the "Hindustan Ghadr". In July 1930 he was reported to be one of the editors of this paper and to have made a seditious speech at an All- Parties meeting at Stockton on 6th January 1930, and another at a Ghadr Party meeting at Marysville on 11th May 1930. He was a member of the Executive Committee of the Ghadr Party in 1930. Associated with prominent Ghadr Party leaders like Joga Singh (J-31), the Secretary of the Party and Teja Singh Sutantar (T-8), the military expert of the Party, and is understood to be a relative of Gurmukh Singh of Kabul (G-54). Of late he is reported to have fallen off in the estimation of the Ghadr Party, and especially of its President, Nidhan Singh (N-39), and it is unlikely that he will be brought back into the Party's good graces so long as Nidhan Singh is in charge of affairs in California. About the middle of 1932 he was arrested by the American authorities on the grounds that he were an advocate of Communism and a member of the Communist Party in America. Deportation proceedings were instituted against him but later he was allowed to depart voluntarily from the U. S. A. He sailed from New York on 29th December 1932 for Hamburg on an emergency certificate issued to him by the Consular authorities in Los Angeles, valid for a single journey to India via Europe. He arrived in Hamburg on 6th January 1933. He was suspected to be on his way to Moscow with a party of Japanese. On his arrival at Berlin, he went to the Headquarters of the International Red Aid who was evidently expecting him.

Description : Age about 30 years; height 5-9"; slim build; sloping shoulders, intelligent appearance; dark thick hair, parted in the middle, rather way, turning grey on top; clean shaven; black eyes; broad nose; thick lips; heavy eyebrows; small wart on right side of face near nose; square jaw; very good teeth; well dressed in American style.